By fay.young on December 18, 2011
Thanks to Clara Massie we are ending the year with words and pictures from an inspiring exhibition celebrating the great contribution migrants make to the cultural wealth of Scotland. The exhibition is over – for the time being anyway – but the impact remains.
Posted in Community arts projects | Tagged Axolotl Gallery, Previously, Scotland's Festival of History, Susan Morrison
By fay.young on December 2, 2011
Apple pancakes with cinnamon butter, a variation on a traditional Scottish theme, went down well at World Kitchen in Leith events this year, here’s the recipe from Fay Young.
Ok, I know dropped scones are really meant for teatime. But they can be good at breakfast too – perhaps, sinfully, fried with bacon and served with [...]
Posted in World Kitchen in Leith, World Kitchen Recipes | Tagged World Kitchen in Leith
By fay.young on November 24, 2011
So near to winning. The ambitious scheme for the Portobello and Leith Wind Turbine will succeed if enough people vote for it on the Energy Share Fund website. Right now it’s in second place and it’s beginning to look very close indeed. If we can all encourage friends to vote before 3 December [...]
Posted in community news | Tagged Energy Share Fund, greener leith, Isle of Gigha Dancing Ladies, Portobello and Leith Community Wind Turbine
By fay.young on November 18, 2011
At World Kitchen in Leith events, Alice’s beans in coconut disappear off the plates in record time and everyone wants to know how to make them. Well, here Alice Musamba shares the secret and a little extra tip: the coconut sauce can be adapted to suit many other vegetables. In fact at last night’s World [...]
Posted in World Kitchen in Leith, World Kitchen Recipes | Tagged Alice Musamba, CORE World Cafe, World Kitchen in Leith
By fay.young on November 11, 2011
The trail ends beneath a thick and prickly holly bush in Rosebank Cemetery. It’s an unmarked grave which seems odd and sad for a man who made such an impact when he was alive. His portrait is in the National Portrait Gallery in Edinburgh, a plaque honours his birthplace in Peebles and, perhaps most importantly [...]
Posted in Local heroes | Tagged Broughton History Society, Broughton Spurtle, James Grieve
By fay.young on November 4, 2011
When Agnes Ngulube Holmes goes shopping for World Food Day she finds herself transported from an Edinburgh street to the African continent. This is what she found.
Posted in World Kitchen in Leith | Tagged World Food Day, World Kitchen in Leith
By fay.young on October 27, 2011
Rami Okasha rustled up a taste of Egypt for World Food Day. Here he gives his recipe for Felafel and makes it sound very simple. That’s Rami in the picture on the right busy dishing up to the stream of people arriving for lunch at Out of the Blue Drill Hall (Ellie and Maka are [...]
Posted in World Kitchen in Leith, World Kitchen Recipes | Tagged Out of the Blue Drill Hall, World Food Day, World Kitchen in Leith
By fay.young on October 19, 2011
Paella partners: pork, chorizo and squid
For World Food Day in Out of the Blue on Sunday 16 October, Ellie Casson set out to overcome her fear of failure – the perfect paella is hard to make and she has tasted the best in Spain where it comes with sun, sand and the Med.
Posted in World Kitchen in Leith, World Kitchen Recipes | Tagged Take One Action, World Food Day, World Kitchen in Leith
By fay.young on September 29, 2011
Things are heating up again at World Kitchen in Leith as members prepare to take part in World Food Day at Out of the Blue Drill Hall. Please consider this your invitation to join us!
Posted in World Kitchen in Leith | Tagged Out of the Blue, Take One Action, World Food Day, World Kitchen in Leith
By fay.young on September 28, 2011
Flashback to Welcome Home Refugee Night in June
A tempting invitation in my inbox. An evening of multicultural music, poetry and food at the next Swietlica Open Day on Monday 3 October. It’s the winning combination that draws crowds to the friendly gathering at Fort Community Wing and so I’m very sorry to miss this event [...]
Posted in Swietlica | Tagged Multicultural Leith, Swietlica, World Kitchen in Leith
